51.   Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra left Monday for the first official visit by a Thai premier to India in a decade, hoping to boost trade and economic relations.

52.   Plesu and Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek agreed on the need to review and update bilateral agreements on travel and economic relations, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

53.   Polish Prime Minister Wlodzimiers Cimoszewics is to visit Indonesia next week to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.

54.   -- They agreed that Japan and Russia will make efforts to expand bilateral trade and economic relations in balance with overall bilateral ties.

55.   A fabric of economic relations between Israel and Syria.

56.   A five-member government will be in charge of foreign affairs, defense, international economic relations, internal economic relations and protection of minorities and human rights.

57.   A nationalist lawmaker urged Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Thursday to stop complying with U.N. sanctions against Serbia and revive economic relations with Iraq and Libya.

58.   A top Iranian official conferred Monday with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov in hopes of building economic relations and finding ways to achieve lasting peace in the Central Asian nation.

59.   Adak, a close aid of Erbakan, will meet with U.S. Treasury Department officials to discuss economic relations, U.S. Embassy officials here said.

60.   Abdullah said extraterritorial action to stop other countries from establishing economic relations is against the aspirations of the World Trade Organization, The Star daily reported.